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Back in the day Ad-Aware along with Spybot seemd to be the preferred choices. I used both for on demand scanning but once I got the new computer I never bothered with either. Too many better choices now. I did vote "Somewhat useful" as it's probably better than not using anything.

Based on cnet's download numbers many still feel both are good to use. To each their own .

@bru, those numbers at C|Net and other download locations are cumulative. Thus, those numbers include downloads from when AAW was first listed there so I wouldn't advise anyone putting any credence in the download numbers.

Hi, jmm.

As an Administrator with well over 10,000 posts at the original Lavasoft Support Forums (taken off line by then CEO, Ann-Christine Åkerlund), I lost faith in Ad-Aware long ago. As Dinesh indicated, there was a time when it was a good program for removing spyware and adware -- programs like BargainBuddy, BonziBuddy, SahAgent, etc. Anything more difficult required (at that time) Merjin's HijackThis.

Granted, "Team Lavasoft"* had great fun back in the day, working directly with Nicolas Stark and members of Lavasoft Research, but Nic has long been out of the picture. In fact, too few people realize that Lavasoft was acquired in January of this year by Lulu Software (WOT rating of Lulu Software).

@bru, those numbers at C|Net and other download locations are cumulative. Thus, those numbers include downloads from when AAW was first listed there so I wouldn't advise anyone putting any credence in the download numbers.

On cnet's site they list last week's downloads. Not sure how those could be cumulative, but I supopose it's possible. Either way like you say I wouldn't read much into what any one else was downloading. I'd do my own research.

Sorry, bru. I hadn't checked the site and know that years ago, all we saw at the various download sites was the total. Its the 372,734,928 figure is cumulative. As to 168,052 downloads, that isn't really a large number in the large picture and doesn't mean that it worked either. LOL

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